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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. -- Clarence Darrow
The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong. -- Robert Maxwell
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. -- Polly Toynbee
To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms. -- William Hague
The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism) -- Temple Grandin
Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else. -- Marva Collins
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading. -- Holbrook Jackson
Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk. -- Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. -- Thomas Berry
Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. -- L. Tom Perry
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities. -- Seymour Papert
Teaching children how to be eco-friendly at preschool age is just so obvious and so fantastic. It creates habits that they get into for a lifetime and then they put pressure on their parents. -- Tana Ramsay
Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually. -- James Dyson
Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in. -- Naveen Jain
Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us also teach our children to see that the work assigned is carried to its completion and to take pride in what they accomplish. -- L. Tom Perry
I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking. -- Nhat Hanh
conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat. -- Casey Miller
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay
Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is not one of active instruction, of teaching children skills,... rather, it is support and encouragement parents give children and the intellectual climate that they create in the home which seem to be the critical factors. -- David Elkind
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities. -- Seymour Papert
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching. -- Gilbert Highet
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. -- Alice Walker
An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work. -- James E. Faust
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. -- Margaret Mead
Everyday classroom teaching is not what children will remember, but how you made a difference in their lives. -- Nita Ambani
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. -- Michael Gove
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. -- Beverly Cleary
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. -- Robert Bly
I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing. -- Jenna Bush
I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives. -- Cherie Blair
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children. -- Joe Baca
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. -- Glenn Beck
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. -- Phyllis Diller
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse. -- Mary Garden
We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in the Natick community because we think so highly of it. -- Darren Flutie
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account. -- Hugh Mackay
Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching. -- Thomas S. Monson
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. -- Plato
The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents. -- Dallin H. Oaks
Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love. -- Kevin Heath
We're teaching our children how to live. We need to start teaching them how to die. -- Bill Bright
Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example. -- C. J. Mahaney
The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. -- Jacques Barzun
When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan. -- Adele Devine
No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children. -- Boyd K. Packer
Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do. -- Jean Ashworth Bartle
It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching -- John Ruskin
We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem! -- Roy Moore
I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future. -- Mary Pope Osborne
Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings. -- Paul Hauck
Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty. -- Tupac Shakur
Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day. -- Brent L. Top
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow. -- M. Scott Peck
I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching. -- Carolyn Murphy
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system. -- Howard Gardner
In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas. -- Gerhard E Frost
Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy. -- Robert A. Heinlein
It's not whether children learn from television, it's what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something. -- Joan Ganz Cooney
I invite everyone to question their thoughts about their children and allow their children to be free. That's when we stop teaching our children fear. -- Byron Katie
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce. -- Jennifer Weiner
Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. -- Keith Johnstone
You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out. -- Peter Koestenbaum
We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up. -- Phyllis Diller
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. -- Carl Sagan
That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you. -- Susan Sarandon
Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact. -- Tom DeLay
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. -- Marva Collins
Because God loves us, he gives us practical teaching and boundaries to protect our hearts. The whole thing is one big expression of a father's love for his children. -- Jennifer Rothschild
Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children. -- M. Russell Ballard
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past... -- Arthur C. Clarke
Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before. -- Loris Malaguzzi
I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be. -- Ricky Martin
If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those who lie and steal? and why does the society punish the offender criminal? -- Ali Altantawi

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